Privacy Policy for Notizie Stellate

This Privacy Policy describes how Notizie Stellate collects, uses, and protects your personal data when you use our online platform, which provides online news publishing, celebrity interviews and profiles, entertainment news coverage, photojournalism, video content production, event reporting, and gossip columns. We are committed to protecting your privacy in accordance with applicable data protection laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

1. Data Controller

Notizie Stellate, located at 28 Via Solferino, 3rd Floor, Milan, Lombardy, 20121, Italy, is the data controller responsible for the processing of your personal data collected through this service.

2. Information We Collect

We collect information to provide and improve our service to you.

• Information you provide directly: This may include information you submit when you subscribe to newsletters, participate in polls or surveys, leave comments, or contact us. This could include your name, email address, and any other information you choose to provide.
• Information collected automatically: When you visit our site, we may automatically collect certain information from your device and usage. This includes your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages viewed, time spent on pages, and links clicked. This is typically collected through cookies and similar tracking technologies.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use the collected information for various purposes, including:

• Providing and maintaining our service;
• Delivering news content, articles, and features to you;
• Personalizing your experience on our site;
• Sending newsletters and updates if you have subscribed;
• Responding to your inquiries and feedback;
• Improving our content, features, and site functionality;
• Monitoring and analyzing usage trends and activities;
• Detecting, preventing, and addressing technical issues;
• Complying with legal obligations and enforcing our terms of service.

4. Legal Basis for Processing

We process your personal data based on the following legal grounds:

• Consent: Where you have given clear consent for us to process your personal data for a specific purpose.
• Contract: Where processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party, such as delivering a subscribed service.
• Legal Obligation: Where processing is necessary to comply with a legal obligation.
• Vital Interests: Where processing is necessary to protect your or another person’s vital interests.
• Legitimate Interests: Where processing is necessary for our legitimate interests or those of a third party, provided these do not override your fundamental rights and freedoms. Our legitimate interests include improving our service, understanding user behaviour, and protecting our business.

5. Sharing Your Information

We do not sell your personal data. We may share your information with third parties only in the following circumstances:

• Service Providers: We may share information with trusted third-party service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as hosting, data analysis, email delivery, and marketing assistance. These providers are obligated to protect your data and use it only for the purposes for which they were contracted.
• Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency).
• Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, your personal data may be transferred as part of the transaction. We will notify you before your personal data is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
• With Your Consent: We may share your information with third parties when we have your explicit consent to do so.

6. Data Retention

We retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. The retention period depends on the type of data and the purpose of processing.

7. Data Security

We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. However, no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

8. Your Data Protection Rights

Under data protection laws, you have certain rights regarding your personal data:

• The right to access the personal data we hold about you.
• The right to request rectification of inaccurate or incomplete data.
• The right to request erasure of your personal data in certain circumstances.
• The right to request restriction of processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.
• The right to object to the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.
• The right to data portability, allowing you to receive your data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and transmit it to another controller.
• The right to withdraw consent at any time where processing is based on consent.
• The right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority if you believe your rights have been violated.

To exercise any of these rights, please submit a formal request in writing to the physical address provided in the contact section below.

9. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

Our site uses cookies and similar tracking technologies to collect and use information about you. Cookies are small data files stored on your device. We use cookies to operate our service, analyze site traffic, and personalize content. You can manage your cookie preferences through your browser settings or other tools we may provide. Please refer to your browser's help documentation for instructions on how to manage cookies.

10. Children's Privacy

Our service is not intended for individuals under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 16. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from a child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

11. International Data Transfers

Your information, including personal data, may be transferred to and processed in locations outside of your country or region, including outside the European Economic Area (EEA), where data protection laws may differ. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy and that adequate safeguards are in place, such as using Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission.

12. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

13. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us in writing:

Notizie Stellate
28 Via Solferino
3rd Floor
Milan, Lombardy
20121
Italy